Joomla! Documentation™

Layout

• Choose a Layout. Select the default value for Single Article menu items.
• Title. Show the Article's Title.
• Linked Titles. Show the title as a link to the article.
• Intro Text.
  • Show: The Intro Text of the article will show when you drill down to the article.
  • Hide: Only the part of the article after the Read More break will show.
• Position of Article Info.
  • Above: Puts the article information block above the text.
  • Below: Puts the article information block below the text.
  • Split: Splits the article information block into 2 separate blocks. One block is above and the other is below the text.
• Article Info Title. Displays 'Details' on top of the article information block.

Category

• Category. Show the Article's Category Title.
  • Link Category. Show the title as a link to that Category.
    Note: You can set this to be either a blog or list layout with the Choose a Layout option in the Category Tab.
• Parent Category. Show the Article's Parent Category Title.
  • Link Parent Category. Show the title as a link to that Category.
    Note: You can set this to be either a blog or list layout with the Choose a Layout option in the Category Tab.

Associations

• Associations. Show the associated flags or Language Code. Multilingual only.
  • Use Image Flags. Display language choice as image flags.

Author

• Author. Show the author of the Article.
  • Link to Author's Contact Page. Show it as a link to a Contact layout for that author.
    Note: The author must be set up as a Contact. Also, a link will not show if there is an Author Alias value for the article.

Date

• Create Date. Show the Article's create date.
• Modify Date. Show the Article's modify date.
• Publish Date. Show the Article's start publishing date.

Options

• Navigation. Show a navigation link 'Prev' or 'Next' when you drill down to the article.
• "Read More" Link. Show the Read More link to link from the part of the article before the Read More break to the rest of the Article.
• Read More with Title.
  • Show: The article title is part of the Read More link. The link will be in the format "Read More: [article title]".
  • Hide: The link will be "Read more".
• Read More Limit (characters). The maximum number of characters from the title to include.
  Note: This can prevent the Read More text to become excessively long if the article has a very long title.
• Tags. Show the tags for each article.

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• Record Hits. Record the number of times the article has been viewed.
• Hits. Show the number of times the article has been displayed by a user.
• Unauthorised Links.
  • Yes: The Intro Text for restricted articles will show. Clicking on the Read more link will require users to log in to view the full article content.
  • No: Articles that the user is not authorised to view (based on the viewing access level for the article) will not show.
• Positioning of the Links.
  • Above: Links are shown above the content.
  • Below: Links are shown below the content.